Welcome back to the Passion with Purpose podcast. I'm your host Nathan Chansky. I am very excited because I have the man Eric Hillstead here with me today. And Eric has been somebody that I've been keeping in touch with through DMs, through the fact that he's been in my business blueprint coaching program. And I've never actually sat down with him for a full conversation like this in this way.

And so I wanted to do this so that other people could hear.

Because Eric just has, from what I know, like the pieces that I know, Eric, you have a wild story.

And so first off, before we get into that, introduce yourself a little bit,

Eric, tell us what you do, where you do it from. And yeah, a little bit about that.

Yeah. So like Nathan said, I'm, I'm Eric Kildsted. I'm a wedding photographer from Minnesota,

like the Minneapolis area. And I've had a camera in my hand for 12 years, but I've

been full time for three. If people finally force me to make that jump. It's amazing. So what's

the year you went full time? I believe it's 2022. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. And so when you were in that place where you really got into photography,

what do you think like attracted you in photography a lot? Yeah. So I was surrounded by amazing

photographers, one of which one of which was like a top rated photographer. Really? Even my sister was a wedding photographer.

Like it was, it was just, I was surrounded by it.

And so cameras were something that I was super intrigued in.

But initially, I didn't, I, what initially, like, got me to get a camera was like, like,

Star Trail photography photography like adventure

photography you know like long exposure stuff and so like as a high school kid just like wanting

the next adventure right like and like it was and like instagram was like just hitting right like

and that kind of content was hot on Instagram during that. Yeah, dude.

And it was,

it was super fun.

And so like always trying to think of the next idea.

Yeah.

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